Connecticut Green Bank presents 2017 PACEsetter Awards

Rocky Hill, CT (March 15, 2018) – The Connecticut Green Bank announced the winners of the 2017 PACEsetter Awards during a ceremony today at the Energize Connecticut Center in North Haven. The award winners are a driving force behind the success of the Green Bank’s Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program. This is the third annual PACEsetter Awards ceremony.

The Connecticut Green Bank created the PACEsetter Awards to acknowledge contractors, building owners and other stakeholders who are advancing the green energy movement through C-PACE, and whose leadership establishes a “pace” for others in their field to follow.

C-PACE is an innovative program, administered by the Green Bank, which helps commercial, industrial, and non-profit property owners access affordable, long-term financing for meaningful energy upgrades to their buildings. C-PACE enables building owners to finance qualifying energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements through a voluntary assessment on their property tax bill.As the program grows, more Connecticut businesses achieve lower energy costs and increase their bottom-line. The Green Bank recently announced that they had closed their 200th C-PACE project.

“Our ‘PACEsetters’ are the driving force behind the C-PACE program. Without our strong contractor network, leadership by building owners, dedicated municipal officials, and other stakeholders who are leading the charge, the program would not have realized so much success,” said Mackey Dykes, Vice President of Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Programs at the Connecticut Green Bank. “The Connecticut Green Bank recently passed an exciting milestone, closing our 200th C-PACE project – we are pleased to recognize some of the individuals and organizations who helped us to achieve this.”

The Green Bank acknowledged contractors, building owners and other stakeholders across multiple categories:

Top Performer, 2017

Green Earth Energy, a C-PACE contractor based in East Windsor who closed 8 C-PACE projects in 2017, the most of any contractor in the program

Outstanding Project, 2017

Earthlight Technologies of Ellington & Constantinos Constantinou for their comprehensive solar and energy efficiency project financed through C-PACE at 28 High Street, Hartford, CT, a mixed-use property including residential space. This project included a 52.2 kW solar PV system and upgrades to insulation, LED lighting, windows, condensing furnaces, and HVAC systems.

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